Application Details:
Version: | 8.0 for NT 5.1 (32-bit) |
License: | Free to use |
URL: | http://www.microsoft.com/ie |
Votes: | 2 |
Latest Rating: | Garbage |
Latest Wine Version Tested: | 6.23 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
Menus and most menu items. Page loading sometimes. Settings seems to work.
What does not
Page loading/navigation most of the time, "about internet explorer", crashes constantly
Workarounds
What was not tested
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
Show | Linux Mint 20.2 "Uma" | Dec 10 2021 | 6.23 | No | Not installable | No | Garbage | Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty | |
Show | Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" amd64 (+variants like Kubuntu) | Dec 21 2018 | 4.0-rc2-staging | Yes | Yes | No | Bronze | Robin | |
Show | PC-BSD 10.0 (64-Bit) | May 19 2014 | 1.7.15 | Yes | Yes | No | Bronze | an anonymous user | |
Show | Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Sep 28 2014 | 1.6.2 | Yes | Yes | No | Garbage | an anonymous user | |
Current | Linux Mint 15 "Olivia" | Sep 19 2013 | 1.6 | Yes | Yes | No | Bronze | an anonymous user |
Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
9727 | Multiple applications fail to show HTML dialog due to 'mshtml.ShowHTMLDialog' being a stub (OPML, Intuit QuickBooks Free / Akamai Download Manager, DotNet VersionCheck) | NEW | View | |
23134 | iexplore does not correctly detect proxy details | NEW | View | |
25648 | ie8 does not navigate to web pages or obey home page setting | NEW | View | |
29249 | iexplore fails to load ftp.adobe.com | NEW | View | |
29590 | Search results do not update on webpage (IE8) | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
30107 | IE8 buttons bar doesn't have background under several buttons | NEW | View | |
31655 | Upgrading Wine destroys registry entries | NEW | View | |
37421 | Internet Explorer 8: crashes on startup | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
53103 | ie8 doesn't start (race condition) | ASSIGNED | View |
1. Copy and paste the following into a terminal:
cat > /tmp/IE8.reg <<EOF
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"TabProcGrowth"=dword:00000000
EOF
regedit /tmp/IE8.reg
2. Run winetricks -q urlmon mshtml
This may work, it may not. Try winetricks.